Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-25


The Supreme court of Kansas has decided
that when woman marries she need moi
take her husbands name unless she chooses
The fact that of committee of eleven Sc
lected to reorganize the United Labor party
| of Chicago eight are avowed Socialists does
not promise well for the future of the party.
Chicago has had enough of Anarchism and
Socialism.
The SimpIon Alps are to be tunnelled to
shorten the route between Paris and Milan.
The tunnel will be about twelve miles long
and will cost $40, ,000, 900. But it will prob
ably be finished before anything is done
| about the old State House.
The passage of the Ives race bill by the
New York legislature gives joy to those in
| terested in horse racing. les purpose is to
permit betting and book-making at horse
races. Those practices have been hitherto
forbidden by law, which for the last year or
two there has been some effort to enforce,
greatly to the disgust of the gamblers The
argument for the passage of the Ives bill was
that, without betting, people would not at
tend horse races
Norton Brothers of Chicago, who employ
two hundred and fifty hands, decided year
ago to introduce the proft-sharing system,
guaranteeing to divide not less than $4,000
the firm at least six months during the year,
and who had not left their work without con-
sent or been discharged for cause The 9th
er day the firm divided $13,275 among the
employees, each receiving ~ per cent. on his
earnings for the year, or from $38 to $115
each. This is better than strikes OF lock-
outs.
In Russia, on the northern railroads, the
locomotives hitherto burning wood or coal
are being adapted for peat burning, the saw
ing being estimated at some fifty per cent.
In many places the peat is cut by hand ma
chimes, but these, although cheap and easy
to work, have the drawback that the peat
cannot be worked below eight feet, whereas
the peat-cutting machines worked by steam
power penetrate twenty feet, and reach the
lower, denser layers of peat, which, owing
to their superior quality, command higher |
price in the market
The London Daily News makes some COM |
PARSONS which set forth clearly the misrule |
out of which the demand for Irish Justice |
springs. From these comparisons the fact |
is gathered that though Ireland is the poor |
est section of the empire, she is yet, accord
ing to her means, more heavily taxed for i'm
perial purposes than either of the others.
While, too, population has been steadily
falling off, taxation has been as steadily in
creasing, sn that to-day the country is ao-
tually forced to contribute more to the sup
port of the government than it did when the
population was twice as large.
The proposed location of the shire towns
Of Ltchfeld county naturally makes quite a
stir in Litchfield. The Enquirer thus com-
plains: In other words, minority of twelve
towns who find Litchfeld inconvenient to
reach fix upon two places for county seats |
to suit their own convenience only and with
out any regard to the wishes or convenience |
OF the remaining towns. They not only |
make division of the county probable; they |
make it unavoidable. Nine of the southeast |
ern and eastern towns Of the county would |
vote to-day to join Waterbury in the forma-
ton of new county rather than go to Win |
sted and New Milford. This is no guess.
The convict labor question is treated in |
queer way in the report of the Illinois Bureau |
OF Labor Statistics. The commissioners de- |
clare that of the three general plans for the |